By Retric at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647291 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647291 "The following men won gold in a solo swimming even in 200

By Retric at http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647291 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1647291 "The following men won gold in a solo swimming even in 2008. "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Phelps "6 ft 4 in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alain_Bernard "6 ft 5 in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C%C3%A9sar_Cielo_Filho "6 ft 5 in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Park_Tae_Hwan "6 ft in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oussama_Mellouli "6 ft 3 in http://sports.yahoo.com/olympics/beijing/TUN/Oussama+Mellouli/217537 "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Peirsol "6 ft 4 in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ryan_Lochte "6 ft 2 in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosuke_Kitajima "5 ft 10 in "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maarten_van_der_Weijden (10 km marathon) "6 ft 7 1⁄2 in "Height is not the most important factor in swimming, but out of 10 people, only one was under 6' and he is still taller than average. Now look at something like size of hands and they are going to stand out even more. Practice may be able to get an average person to the 90th percentile in most things but once you start talking about 99.99% DNA becomes extremely important." (If you upvote me, please upvote the original comment as well: I'm sure Retric would appreciate it)